The corpses of the Qing cavalry and the uncontrolled war horses that charged in front once again became an obstacle to the advance of the Qing army's follow-up cavalry team.

When Hongtang's tactics fired four rounds of bullets in a row, the Qing army failed to touch even a single knight in front of Hongtang's team, and they all became the ghosts of Hongtang's army's guns halfway, or were blocked in the middle of the road.

Dolgon's face in the rear army was ugly, not only because the Qing knights received a lot of blows as soon as they came up, but also because of his keen military sense, in this first encounter, he discovered an unbelievable fact: the muskets in the hands of this army in front of him were not only more powerful than all the muskets they had ever seen in the Qing Dynasty, but also their ammunition loading speed, firing speed and crosshairs were far superior to any musket army of this era.

It is no wonder that this group of unknown enemies dared to fight them in the plains, a terrain that was obviously conducive to cavalry assaults.

However, at this time, Dolgon could only go up one road to the dark, and the cavalry had already rushed to a distance of only twenty or thirty zhang in front of the opponent, and if he gave up and withdrew, not only would he lose a lot of losses afterwards, but he would also have to charge up next time, and he would lose a group of soldiers in vain.

It's better to be ruthless now, continue to let the soldiers charge forward, as long as they can rush to the opponent's body, with their invincible cavalry strength in the Qing Dynasty, the previous losses can always be recovered.

Soon, however, Dorgon's face, which had not been good-looking, changed color again, and red, purple, and pale colors were printed on his face in turn, like a dyeing house.

"Boom! Boom! ”

The sound and vibration of the cannon caused by a series of artillery bombardment on the ground are no stranger to the Qing people, and every time they go south to plunder the Ming Dynasty, they will always suffer some losses on the artillery on the city walls of the Ming Dynasty.

Fortunately, most of the artillery in this era was bulky and difficult to move, and most of the easy to carry were not powerful enough, so the actual use value of artillery in field warfare was not great.

Benefiting from the advanced value of raw materials, Hongmen has lagged behind the Western Europeans in artillery manufacturing technology from the beginning, and has even surpassed the other party now.

Of course, Hongmen has spared no effort to invest in education for more than 20 years, and has been almost free education for the team has contributed countless technical talents and backbones, not to mention the internship nature of the Shenji Hall of Bengang School, just the members of Bengang R&D Institute, so far it has exceeded the scale of 1,000 people.

The caliber power of the 18-pounder cannon is acceptable in hand-to-hand combat, but even if it is an artillery cast by the most advanced cannon casting technology in the West, its own weight is at least more than 1,000 catties, while the Hongmen Gun Manufacturing Bureau, with the support of excellent raw materials and technology, can reduce the weight of the 18-pounder gun by almost two-fifths, and its weight is only six or seven hundred catties.

A gun of this weight has a practical value in field combat, and if you use a gun carriage to drag and tow, you only need two horses to easily pull it forward.

This time, Wu Jie and the others went north to compete with the Jurchens, and Li Tianyang naturally hoped to be able to test the new-style army that his side had worked hard to train over the years in actual combat, and this field artillery team naturally had a chance to play.

The hollow flowering bullet accompanied by the characteristics of the Hongmen landed on the dense place of the soldiers in the rear of the Qing cavalry, and a large number of people and war horses fell to the ground with a roar, trembling or wailing.

"Ruler 12 degrees, reload and prepare!!"

The artillery team in the rear quickly adjusted the angle and sought the maximum value of the artillery bombardment, and they all had a clear goal, which was to kill and injure as much of the opponent's living force as possible.

More than 20 artillery pieces continued to vent their power on this land, showing their existence, and bombing the rear positions of the Qing Dynasty Assault Cavalry to the point that people were overturned on their backs, and the ground was a mess, and it could even be said that it was miserable.

At the same time, the front team of the Hongtang musket team was also cooperating with the rear artillery bombardment, and continued to give full play to the power of the musket in their hands, although it could not reach the power of the artillery squad sweeping a large area, but under the close range of point fire, even if the elite cavalry of the Qing Dynasty had two or three layers of armor to protect themselves, it could not withstand a shot to hit the vital point.

"The first row is ready, press forward fifty steps!!"

"Second platoon, third platoon fire cover!"

The Hongtang army once again did not play its cards according to common sense, and as an infantryman, it took the initiative to press forward at this time, and killed it without hesitation in the direction of leading the Qing cavalry team.

"Step! Trample! Trample! Trample! ”

The sound of neat and energetic steps, like the footsteps of the Grim Reaper, stepped on the hearts of the Qing people in front of them.

For many years, since the rise of the Jurchens in Liaodong, they have rarely suffered losses in field battles, and if you go back to the past, that is, when the former Liaodong general Li Chengliang was alive, the Jurchens failed to please him.

Half an hour later, in the eyes of the officers and soldiers of the Qing army, it seemed to be as long as a century, but when the rear commander Dolgon did not give the order to retreat, even if this Qing cavalry knew that there was a sea of swords and fires ahead, they could only bite the bullet, and they only prayed in their hearts that this bullet that did not have long eyes would better not fall on their bodies!

The four thousand Qing cavalry who were charging into battle did not begin to have knights approaching the musketeers of the powerful enemy in front of them until this time, but even the knights who rushed to the front had not even had time to swing their long knives in their hands, they had already been hit by several fiery bullets and became one of the corpses on the ground.

The only thing that can inflict damage on the enemy in front of them is their bow and arrow, and with the help of projectile skills, they can shoot feathered arrows from a distance to the enemy in front of them in a straight formation, and the results are very few.

From the surprise at the beginning, to the shock later, until now the whole person has been expressionless, after getting used to the strength of the opponent, Dolgon's mind is running at a high speed at this time, to see if there is a chance to turn defeat into victory.

However, after thinking about it countless times in his mind, he told himself again and again that this time they could only return with a feather in the air cannon.

"Mingjin Withdraws !!"

Very unwilling, but helpless, Dolgon's eyes were full of helplessness, and after a long time of staring at the powerful opponent opposite, he gave instructions to the guards beside him.

"Wow!"

Finally looking forward to the long-lost order to retreat in his heart, the Daqing Iron Cavalry could no longer care about the heroism of any soldiers at this time, and exerted his riding skills to the extreme, and flew towards the direction of his main army.

(End of chapter)